The auricular muscles, which enabled our distant ancestors to move their ears for better hearing, activate when people try to ...

If you can wiggle your ears, you can use muscles that helped our distant ancestors listen closely. These auricular muscles ...

A muscle that we thought served no purpose beyond enabling some people to wiggle their ears is actually active when we are ...

“The exact reason these became vestigial is difficult to tell, as our ancestors lost this ability about 25 million years ago, ...

This muscle, known as the auricularis posterior, has been largely dormant in humans for centuries but shows signs of ...

A mechanism that activates specific muscles in our ears is a leftover from our evolutionary past, back when our ancestors depended more on their hearing for survival.

To test the functioning of the muscles, researchers recruited 20 people without hearing problems. They used electromyograph, ...

An ear wiggler himself, Schröer has collected stories of remarkable ear abilities, such as people who feel their ears moving toward a sound and people who use their ear movements in daily life. “They ...

Vestigial ear muscles activate during focused listening, revealing a hidden link to our auditory past and evolution.

Summary: Humans have vestigial ear muscles that once helped our ancestors focus on sounds. New research shows these muscles still activate when we strain to hear in noisy environments. Scientists used ...